If you haven’t heard already, Pilates is fantastic for your overall health and well being as well as helping to look after your spine! Pilates requires little equipment so if perfect at home, but one of the key pieces of equipment is the Pilates mat!

I started two years ago, when I had a hard time during my volleyball season in Poland. I couldn't get along with the coach, the team mates weren't so nice and I had problems to adapt to the Polish mentality. I needed something else than only my job as a volleyball player. I started with yoga from YouTube, after I bought DVDs and went to live classes.

We all know that as soon as you reach your senior years, you have somewhat of an excuse to take it easy, yet there are numerous advantages to doing exercise in later life. The aging process and debilitating physical factors such as bone loss can be slowed down if you participate in a regular fitness regime, yet studies show that many adults over 65 spend 10 hours or more being sedentary

It’s kind of funny, really. Running is one of the most accessible and affordable sports out there. It doesn’t require a fancy gym membership, years of personalized and technical instruction, or even all that much equipment, per se. Provided you have a safe place to run -- indoors or outdoors, it doesn’t really matter

Yoga is an ancient Indian practice that seeks to connect the physical, mental, and spiritual dimensions of the body. Derived from the Sanskrit word ‘yuj’, it literally translates to ‘unity of the mind and body with the universal spirit’. The traditional style of this 5000-year-old practice aims to help students overcome several physical, mental, and spiritual limitations with the goal of realising the self – the ultimate goal of yoga is enlightenment. Traditional yoga is still seen by many to be on the fringe of a religion; however, the modern practice is somewhat different from the original linage.

, we look into breaking the UK barriers that many Pilates’ instructors face, starting with an example from an instructor named Sarah:
 

Many Pilates instructors aspire to own and run their own Pilates studio and for many the attractions of running such a business from...

The other week we mentioned that Melissa Breen is an avid Align-Pilate’s apparatus fan and uses our A2R reformer. Check out her routine below and see if you can steel some tips for your own routine:

Melissa Breen is the fastest Australian woman of all time. In 2014, in her home city of Canberra, her dreams were realised when she broke the record of then holder, Melinda Gainsford-Taylor. A record which had stood for over 20 years was beaten; 11.11 seconds the time.